Author Brett Easton Ellis returns this summer to the glitzy land of cocaine and cocktails with his long awaited sequel to the cult classic, LESS THAN ZERO. Maintaining his theme of borrowing a title from the Elvis Costello song book, IMPERIAL BEDROOM revisits the characters Clay and Blair, twenty-five years later, as they struggle (and
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Doubleday Books | 2009 | 528 pages | List price: $29.95 | Get it for less at Amazon In Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, the main character from his bestselling THE DA VINCI CODE, Robert Langdon, is presented with another series of puzzles to solve, another fanatic with skin issues to outrun, and another female
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Harper Perennial | 2007 | 240 pages | List price: $13.95 | Get it for less at Amazon It was going to be a bit of a crazy week, and I knew this going into week fifteen. So, I took some time to find what I hoped would be a perfect book to serve as
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Ballantine Books | 2009 | 368 pages | List price: $25.00 | Get it for less at Amazon Disclaimer: If you don’t like Kathy Griffin, you aren’t going to like this book. It doesn’t matter how many stars I give it or what I say about it (although, how flattering if that were the case),
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Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam | 2009 | 464 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon It’s a milestone week! By completing this book, I have officially read more in the first three months of this year than I did all of last year. That’s a bit crazy to me and yet,
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Penguin Press | 2009 | 288 pages | List price: $25.95 | Get it for less at Amazon It has been a monumental week, no matter what side of the political fence you sit on. This week, the President of the United States signed healthcare reform into law. Now, I am not here to debate
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Free Press | 2007 | 336 pages | List price: $14.00 | Get it for less at Amazon I read Kimmel’s first memoir, A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY: GROWING UP SMALL IN MOORELAND, INDIANA during one of my annual girls’ trips to Mexico a couple years back. While taking in the sun, tasty margaritas and enjoying
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Harvest Books | 2007 | 208 pages | List price: $13.00 | Get it for less at Amazon I scooped up several copies of Abigail Thomas’s memoir, A THREE DOG LIFE, after hearing her read at a local, independent bookseller a couple of years ago. The seal of approval on the cover by Steven King
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Pantheon | 2007 | 352 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon Week nine was finished just in time with Marjane Satrapi’s coming-of-age memoir, THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS, a story about growing up in Iran in the early 80s at the height of social change, oppression and war. What’s unique about
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Knopf | 2008 | 480 pages | List price: $26.95 | Get it for less at Amazon I have had a secret: This week’s book was actually attempted last week and I made an executive decision to put it down and hold until another time, a less busy week, a week when I would have
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